Research Coordinator at UCSF
Job summary
The Research Coordinator will support the F.I. Proctor Foundation’s Principal Investigator’s research activities in the field of ocular inflammatory disease, which includes epidemiology, observations studies, and clinical trials that involve domestic and international collaboration; responsibilities include study design and implementation, data management and analysis, grant writing and publications, communication and coordination of collaborating sites, and coordinating the Proctor Foundation’s participation in industry-sponsored research related to uveitis; this position requires an employee who can be relied upon for primary statistical analyses of a complex nature, play an integral role in designing and implementing new research studies (including international clinical trials), design and manage databases for data collection, provide basic training and support in statistical and data-related principles to residents, fellows, and other employees, and draft manuscripts for publication; the incumbent must be able to multi-task, provlem-solve, and apply creative solutions to new and unexpected situations with limited supervision; in addition, the employee must be able to communicate effectively with international collaborators and coordinate projects overseas, sometimes in the absence of the principal investigator; and perform other duties as assigned. NOTE: This position may include travel to India.
To Apply
For more information and to apply, please visit the job posting here.
Global Health Fellows Program: now accepting applications for Summer 2012
The Global Health Fellows Program in Geneva, Switzerland is now accepting applications for its summer 2012 cohort.
Overview
In the summer of 2012, Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy will bring the eighth cohort of Global Health Fellows to Geneva. Designed to equip graduate students to join in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other pressing health challenges, the Global Health Fellows Program will provide students with both an academic and experiential perspective on how intergovernmental institutions, public-private partnerships, and non-governmental organizations shape global health policy. By combining internships and an intensive course on global health issues, the program is a unique opportunity to learn first-hand how global health policy is formulated and implemented. This past year, 24 graduate students drawn nationally and abroad from schools of public policy, public health, law, and medicine participated in the summer experience. Students interned at a wide range of NGOs and intergovernmental organizations, including the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the Medicines Patent Pool, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, and various programs at WHO.
Who
Past program participants include graduate and professional students from all disciplines, including law, medicine, public health, public policy, international affairs, business, environmental studies, and other graduate or professional students interested in improving global health equity through policy.
What
The Global Health Fellows Program offers students assistance in matching to internships in Geneva-based institutions, the opportunity to learn directly from experts working to resolve some the world's most significant challenges in global health, and a community of fellow students from around the world.
The program includes:
** An 8-12 week health policy internship in Geneva
** Events throughout the summer providing opportunities to socialize and network with other policy interns, experts in global health, and mentors
** An intensive, weeklong course, titled “Health Policy in a Globalizing World”
When: A typical internship spans between May 15 and August 15, 2012. The course week will take place in early July. There is flexibility on the start and ending dates for individual students, but attendance during the one-week course is required.
Applications for the Summer 2012 program are due Monday, November 28, 2011 by 5 pm EST and require two letters of recommendation.
Additional details about the program and admission requirements can be found on our website and in the accompanying brochure:
www.sanford.duke.edu/geneva<http://www.sanford.duke.edu/geneva>
Please send application materials and refer questions regarding the Global Health Fellows Porgram to Lisa Kukla, Program Coordinator, Program on Global Policy & Governance, Sanford School of Public Policy, geneva@duke.edu<mailto:geneva@duke.edu>, Phone: 919-613-9289.
Public Health Recruiter Panel: Monday, Oct. 24
Get the inside track on job search do’s & don’ts. Recruiters will represent different public health sectors.
Date: Monday, October 24, 2011
Time: 5-5:50pm
Location: BU School of Medicine, L110
Panelists:
- Kim Ainsworth, Executive Director, Greater Boston Federal Executive Board
- Carson Burrington, District Manager, Kelly Scientific Staffing Firm
- Laura Horlitz, Senior Recruiter, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- Ann-Marie Joyce, Human Resources Manager, Community Catalyst and Health Care For All
- George MacKinnon, Recruiter, Boston Medical Center
Researcher position at PSI
PSI Research & Metrics (R&M) seeks a Researcher to implement new initiatives, improve quantitative and qualitative research, coordinate research input into proposal writing, and supervise a limited number of staff. Preference will be given to candidates with an excellent understanding of program design and evaluation. Successful candidates will be effective at implementing collaborative research programs, skilled at explaining research to technical as well as non-technical audiences, and motivated by working in a dynamic and multi-disciplinary setting. The position is based in Washington, D.C., will require some travel, and reports to the Director for Research & Metrics.
PSI Research & Metrics increases the ability of the organization to generate and use research that is relevant for programs and strategic for social marketing. For more information, please visit: psi.org/resources/research.
Responsibilities:
Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Launch new marketing research strategies in collaboration with other researchers and departments, including audience segmentation, measuring a total market approach (TMA), testing behavioral models, and improving data quality and utility
- Launch new evaluation research strategies, including developing and testing conceptual frameworks, designing experimental and quasi-experimental studies and assessing the impact of PSI's interventions
- Coordinate with New Business Development (NBD) and other proposal writers to ensure that monitoring and evaluation plans and the research methods written into proposals are strategic and responsive to the organization's needs
- Work with Research Ethics Board (REB) coordinator to continually improve the study submission and review process for the protection of human subjects
- Provide technical support to global R&M team on quantitative and qualitative research, including study design, data analysis and report writing, and the customization of existing tools
- Supervise a limited number of R&M staff and consultants; manage key research partnerships; mentor colleagues within the organization in research
- Contribute to the evidence base in social marketing by authoring articles and publishing in peer-reviewed journals; presenting at conferences and meetings; and documenting lessons learned for internal and external stakeholders
- Deliver trainings in PSI's research strategies and competencies
- Participate in internal and external working groups to improve PSI's work in new and emerging areas of interest
- Provide technical assistance to PSI stakeholders as requested
Experience:
- PhD with at least 3 years of relevant experience in public health, statistics, health economics, population studies, or a related field strongly preferred; Masters degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience in public health, statistics, health economics, and/or population studies will be considered
- Experience designing and implementing quantitative and qualitative studies; strong program evaluation skills
- Experience conducting research in low- and middle-income countries
- Strong proposal/grant writing experience
- Solid understanding of human subjects protection in research
- Extensive knowledge of quantitative analysis programs (e.g., SPSS, STATA, R); familiarity with qualitative analysis programs (Atlas TI; Ethnograph; NVivo)
- Ability to develop research training tools and materials for a variety of contexts, learning curves and needs
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage own projects
- Highly organized, comfortable working on multiple simultaneous projects; great at meeting deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with researchers and non-researchers along a variety of learning curves and needs
- Interest in managing other researchers
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time internationally
- Excellent written, verbal and inter-personal communication skills
Preference will be given to candidates with knowledge of public health issues and social marketing for health, ability to speak French, Spanish, or Portuguese, and/or familiarity with the international donor development community.
For the full job posting and to apply, please visit the PSI website.
Metrics Technical Advisor position at PSI
PSI Research & Metrics (R&M) seeks a Technical Advisor for its Metrics program. PSI measures a variety of health metrics but relies on the disability adjusted life year (DALY) averted as its bottom-line measure of health impact. The Technical Advisor will develop a strategy for strengthening the metrics program and ensuring that the organization is able to use DALYs, costing and other tools for decision making. The Technical Advisor will work with modelers as well as internal and external experts to develop and refine models, improve data integrity, and supervise a limited number of staff. Successful candidates will be skilled at explaining metrics to technical as well as non-technical audiences and motivated by working in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary setting. This position is based in Washington, D.C., will require some international travel, and reports to the Director for Research & Metrics.
PSI Research & Metrics increases the ability of the organization to generate and use research that is relevant for programs and strategic for social marketing. For more information, please visit: psi.org/resources/research.
Responsibilities:
- Develop an organizational metrics strategy that ensures the use of DALYs and other metrics tools for decision making
- Oversee the development of new metrics initiatives, including integrating country- and intra-country variance into models, improving measures of targeting and the contribution of communications and behavior change interventions to health impact; integrating metrics with routine data collection and behavioral surveys, and creating automated systems for generating routine reports
- Improve PSI's internal capacity to use and report DALYs. Capacity building will likely include algorithms to answer the most commonly asked questions, workshops, presentations, tool kits, and concept briefs and concept papers
- Lead efforts to use the DALY for evidence-based decision making at the policy level
- Supervise a limited number of R&M staff and consultants; manage key partnerships; mentor colleagues within the organization in metrics
- Work with R&M and other departments to create DALY models for products and interventions in PSI's main health areas; produce in-depth analyses to inform decision making
- Integrate the current system for reporting DALYs with a new program management system (Lawson) and integrate cost effectiveness analyses with Lawson and other accounting records from different sources
- Participate in interdisciplinary working groups to develop metrics tools that are responsive to stakeholder needs
- Develop partnerships with external institutions and programs working in public health in developing countries to meet and share best practices in modeling
- Contribute to the fields of public health, social marketing, and metrics by authoring articles and publishing in peer-reviewed journals; presenting at conferences and meetings; and documenting lessons learned for internal and external stakeholders
- Provide other technical assistance as needed
Experience:
- PhD in mathematical modeling, economics, statistics, population studies, or a related field
- At least 7 years professional experience in the design, analysis and management of complex data
- Experience in mathematical modeling; experience in tropical disease modeling a plus
- Background in health economics
- Experience with relational databases
- Coding experience for implementation of quantitative methods
- Extensive knowledge of quantitative analysis programs (e.g., SPSS, Stata)
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with technicians and non-technicians along a variety of learning curves and needs
- Highly organized, comfortable working on multiple simultaneous projects; great at meeting deadlines
- An interest in managing other members of the R&M team
- Ability to travel 15-20% of the time internationally
- Excellent written, verbal and inter-personal communication skills
For complete job posting and to apply, please visit the PSI website.
Boston-based Practicum Opportunity with Pharmaccess Namibia
Pharmaccess Namibia is seeking a dedicated and independent student to conduct a thorough review of the literature on the operation of mobile clinics in developing countries. Pharmaccess currently runs one mobile primary care clinic (Mister Sister) in Namibia, and is considering expansion, but first wants to absorb the lessons learned from the operation of other such programs. Ehimen Aneni, a second year MPH student at BUSPH, worked as an intern with the Mister Sister clinic this summer, and can provide direct insight. There will be opportunity for Skype interchange with the Pharmaccess Namibia Executive Director and staff as the literature review and “lessons learned” summary are developed. The report may become the basis of an article for which the practicum student would be an author.
Pharmaccess Namibia
Created by the Dutch NGO Pharmaccess, which was a leader in making antiretroviral therapy available in the private sector in Africa, and in the sponsorship of health insurance programs in Namibia, Nigeria and Tanzania. Pharmaccess Namibia is a health policy think tank and innovation center that developed a mobile multi-disease screening program, and started the Mister Sister mobile primary care clinic. BUSPH has worked with Pharmaccess on a number of program and project evaluations since 2005. Rich Feeley has been the primary liasion at BUSPH, and can provide further information. He will serve as the BUSPH supervisor for the practicum.
Substance of Practicum
- Review materials on the current Mister Sister program, including data collected and cost/budget models.
- Review field experience of Mister Sister with Ehimen Aneni.
- Conduct preliminary literature search for materials (evaluations, program descriptions) on mobile clinics in developing countries
- Develop preliminary summary of findings from literature review.
- Review literature review and receive feedback from Pharmaccess Namibia managers via Skype.
- Supplement literature review based on discussions with Pharmaccess Namibia.
- Prepare report summarizing the lessons learned on the operation of mobile primary care clinics.
- Adapt report into article format
How to Apply
Interested students should submit resume & cover letter to Rich Feeley at: ffeeley@bu.edu
Global Healthcare and Engineering Cocktail Hour: Friday, Oct.21
Join us for an hour of short presentations by students and staff from engineering and public health, followed by a cocktail hour for networking and discussions!
For this event, we are excited to have:
- Dr. Beverly Brown on Mobilizing the BU Village for Product Design &
Development for Resource Limited Countries (CGHD - Center for Global Health & Development)
- Dr. David Wood on a biophysical marker for clinical severity in sickle cell disease (MIT Lab for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies)
- Dr. Richard Pollack on 21st century engineering challenges and opportunities to combat ancient diseases (BU Biology)
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Where: BU Photonics Center, Room 901
When: Friday, October 21, 4:30pm to 6:30pm (refreshments at 4:15p)
Who: Anyone who is interested in learning about global health projects from engineering and public health standpoints!
Please RSVP by going to this URL:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHpXeU1OcnF6WjRfblhrbTRBdEVNcXc6MQ
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Sponsors of GHECHo are:
Dr. Beverly Brown (Director of Center for Global Health (CGHD) & Development and
Office of Technology Development (OTD))
BU Photonics Center
Dr. Cathie Klapperich (BU BME, ME)
Dr. Muhammad Zaman (BU BME)
Dr. Selim Unlu (BU ECE, BME, Physics)
Research Centre Manager in Ghana with Vestergaard Frandsen
We are looking to recruit a new Manager for our Research Centre in Ghana. You will be responsible for the coordination of all laboratory research activities, running tours for sales staff and managing all staff needs pertaining to the efficient running of the Centre. The position
reports to the Field Trials Manager based in Ghana.
Click here for more information.
This position is based in our Research Centre in Ghana. If you possess the above qualifications and the drive to meet the challenges, please send your cover letter to jobs-africa@vestergaardfrandsen.com enclosing your CV, a day-time telephone contact, names and contacts of three referees no later than 25 October 2011.
We will only respond to electronic application and to shortlisted applicants.
8th Annual Pike Conference on Health Law — “The Holocaust and Its Legacy: Resiliency, Fragility and Restitution of Survivors”
The Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health and the Boston University School of Law are co-hosting the 8th Annual Pike Conference on Health Law. The theme of this year's conference is "The Holocaust and Its Legacy: Resiliency, Fragility and Restitution of Survivors."
Event Description:
Gregory Schneider, executive vice president of the International Claims Conference, will join as a featured speaker.
The keynote speaker will be child survivor, psychiatrist, and author Robert Krell, M.D., whose talk is entitled “The Resiliency of the Survivor.”
The closing program will be delivered by Rabbi Joseph Polak, a child survivor, who will give a talk titled “On Being the Last Witness.”
When:
Sunday, October 23, 2011
9:00 AM to 8:30 PM
Location:
Florence & Chafetz Hillel House at Boston University
213 Bay State Road, Boston
Please RSVP to Elizabeth Aggott at eaa@bu.edu
For more information, see the full event flyer or visit www.bu.edu/law/events/upcoming
Friends of Ngong Road: Using Business Principles to Launch and Grow an International NGO
Amy Johnson, Board Member/CFO and Peter Ndungu, Executive Director of Friends of Ngong Road, a Nairobi, Kenya-based NGO discuss starting and growing an international nonprofit organization using business principles. Topics will include:
• Creating strong financial controls and metrics
• Growing pains and pitfalls
• Using technology to your advantage
• Working with different currencies
Date: Friday, October 14, 2011
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Location: SMG 114
The mission of Friends of Ngong Road is to provide education and support for Nairobi children living in poverty whose families are affected by HIV/AIDS so they can transform their lives. Friends of Ngong Road pairs each sponsor with a specific child allowing a mutually beneficial relationship to develop.
There will be informal reception following the presentation and discussion across the street at Scoozi from 4-5pm.
